A good explication of my opinion as well. As a reader of lefty commentary, I’m rather shocked that there seems to be a fair amount of anti-Pelosi sentiment in the theory that it’ll produce a DSA candidate. Washington Post

Joel, it’s like they’re channeling directly from your superego Mind-Blowing LEGO Recreation of LOTR’s Helm’s Deep Battle

‘You Are All Inside Amazon’s Second Headquarters,’ Jeff Bezos Announces To Horrified Americans As Massive Dome Envelops Nation

No, it’s not this at all. It’s not being fine with it; if anything, the Germans were far *less* fine with it than we are now, because nothing like Fox existed until Hitler built it after he had total power.

It was, “I’m not political,” “I’m too concerned with my own life to get involved,” “Most of us are better than this,” and “Surely this time they’ve gone too far and it will correct itself.” Jews and other targeted populations told each other this, when explaining why they hadn’t emigrated, literally until the day that their emigration was outlawed. Years after Hitler took power, years after increasingly restrictive persecution.

And they saw the worst of it. Can you imagine how much latitude the average German had to normalize and dismiss in the same way?

THAT’S the parallel.

The crucial difference: the Nazis didn’t have the Nazis to point to and say, we’re not as bad as that, so who we are is perfectly acceptable until we are. John Pavlovitz

I love how this is a groundbreaking new idea rather than a basic societal assumption that’s protected by federal oversight and enforcement Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered unless they opt out – Los Angeles Times

A discussion on Twitter about today’s shooting and what, if anything, it has to do with the last two years linked me to this, which I can’t stop watching compulsively because it explains the worst case perfectly in three minutes. On every rewatch there’s a bit more nuance.

The clip is from Cabaret, and the scene is set outside Berlin in 1931. But don’t skip it knowing that, because I doubt it’s what saying that makes you expect.

Tomorrow belongs to me! (With Lyrics)

It’s almost as if running the economy in favor of the wealthy and fucking over everyone else eventually bites you in the ass Dow plunges more than 500 points in another day of losses, officially wiping out its 2018 gains

?She’s the expert and I’m not, but this discounts the fact that we live in a political culture where one side believes that no bridge is too far. I’ve lost count of the events that will “wake up the good people.”?

?History does not show humans do this.? Joan Johnson-Freese on Twitter